An editor-in-chief of any newspaper

An editor-in-chief of any newspaper, TV channel, radio stations or news portal is a very powerful position. It is also one of the most highly respected professions in India.

Usually, chief editors have top political connections and also speak directly with diplomats, industry captains, and other VIPs. O

n the flip side, they can face stiff penalties under the Indian Penal Code if their media organization carries some news that violates any law. And sadly, such laws are ambiguous.

At the same time, the job of an editor-in-chief is also risky. They can be targeted and killed by criminals or terrorists. They can face court charges from anyone who’s opposed to any news carried by their media outlet.

That’s the reason editor-in-chief gets the median monthly salary of Rs.500,000 plus perks. The amount can be slightly lower or higher depending upon the employer and location.

Usually, an editor-in-chief also has to move up the echelons. They start as cub reporters or trainee sub-editors or even proofreaders. Over the years they get promotions and gather excellent contacts to qualify as editor-in-chief.

Educational Qualifications: No Specific Qualifications. Nowadays, some media houses prefer candidates with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications.Big Boss vote Big Boss voteMyna nandhini

Executive Chef

If churning up mouthwatering dishes is your forte, it’s possible to get this coveted and highest paying job in India as executive chef.

By any standards, an executive chef is one of the most prestigious jobs too. Usually, executive chefs work for topmost hotels and resorts or niche restaurants.

Monthly pay for the executive chef in India varies between Rs.500,000 to Rs.2 million. It depends on your skills, experience and hotel chain or restaurant where you’ll work.

Other than creating delectable dishes from various cuisines of the world, an executive chef is also expected to function as a nutritionist. They have to know the nutritional value of the food or dishes they’re cooking for guests.

Often, executive chefs become celebrity chefs such as Sanjeev Kapoor and host TV shows. In such cases, your income is unlimited. However, executive chefs start as dishwashers and move on to kitchen porters.

Later, they work as a commis chef, chef-de-partie and sous chef before graduating as executive chef. That’s because they’re required to know every function at a hotel or resort kitchen.

Educational Qualifications: Bachelor of Culinary Arts from any very reputable college such as government-run Institute of Hotel Management or foreign institutes.

Artificial Intelligence Professionals

rtificial Intelligence or AI is a developing field in India and most parts of the world this is the reason that it comes under highest paying jobs in India. In simple terms, AI refers to human processes that a machine or robot can replicate.

This involves programming computers and devices to process information like the human brain and respond like a real human to various situations.

India is facing an acute shortage of AI professionals. These include everyone from AI creators to AI programmers and AI engineers.

That’s because Artificial Intelligence courses are very rare in India. Usually, most AI techies are graduates of American universities.

As AI professional, you can expect monthly pay of at least Rs.600,000. And employers are some of the topmost IT firms of the world such as IBM, Cisco, and Accenture, among others.

Drilling Engineer

It’s quite likely you haven’t heard about this job known as Drilling Engineer before. Quite understandable. Drilling engineer is a very specialized profession that requires equally specialized qualifications.

To explain a bit. Drilling engineers work on oil rigs and create oil wells for mining crude oil. Since most oil rigs are offshore, either on high seas or rivers as well as in remote areas, the job can be pretty taxing.

The Indian government and its various companies such as Oil India Ltd are among the topmost recruiters of drilling engineers. Private oil and natural gas exploration companies that are flourishing nowadays also hire drilling engineers.

Median monthly pay of a drilling engineer is about Rs.2,50,000. The amount can vary depending upon the employer and location of posting.

To work as a drilling engineer, you’ll require a Bachelor of Technology or Master of Technology degree in Petroleum Engineering.

This in itself is a very specialized field. Only Indian Institute of Technology and few other state-owned universities offer Petroleum Engineering courses in India.

Educational Qualifications: B-Tech or M-Tech in Petroleum Engineering from IIT or any reputed university.

Chartered Accountant

Between 100,000 and 150,000 students appear for entrance exams for the Chartered Accountant course every year.

Of these, only about 22 percent make it to the finals and qualify as Chartered Accountant. However, only about two percent of students pass the final exams at the very first attempt.

Studying to work as CA isn’t easy by any means. It involves studying voluminous books that consist of various accounting theories and practices, understanding various kinds of taxes and their rules as well as actual auditing and accounting to become CA.

All CA students have to study and work at the same time, which makes the course even tougher. During the daytime, they work as ‘articles’ with a Chartered Accountancy firm.

And at nights, they spend lots of time studying various subjects required to crack these tough competitive exams. Exams are conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

The median income of a CA varies between Rs.500,000 to Rs.750,000 per month. Usually, CA’s are in demand around the year.

However, there’s a peak in demand for their services between March and July every year, since individuals and companies need to file tax returns with the government.